Bartok - 15 Hungarian peasant songs - Richter London 1970

Béla Bartók
15 Hungarian peasant songs Sz.71
Sviatoslav Richter
Live recording, London, 7.XII.1970

[@pianolentiwals1862]

I´ve listened to this recording 100 times.

[@kult78]

you are behind me 1k times

[@jennyjang5894]

Utterly unique..today is the first time i listen to Bartok played by Richter..Richter's rendition is exciting and wonderful

[@gergelycsallo5133]

It is a great honour for me to hear Bartók by Richter, one of the greatest pianist of history. From Hungary...

[@notaire2]

Wunderschöne live Aufführung dieses fein komponierten Meisterwerks im lyrischen Tempo mit anmütigem Anschlag und sorgfältig kontrolliereter Dynamik. Einfach bewundernswert!

[@lovasmester]

Lehetetlen meghallani, hogy Bartókot nem egy magyar zongorista játsza (mi ismerjük a dalok szövegét is), Richter egy tiszteletbeli magyar...

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Bartok melody is beyond description , inspirational , graceful and comfortable to the ear and the mind

[@adriancameron8665]

he gave us all a great gift

[@shin-i-chikozima]

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[@BugsyGuitar]

Those beautifully haunting (or hauntingly beautiful) slow longing motives are rendered exquisitely. afərin

[@krzysztofcukier4565]

Beautiful.

[@eveschulz1771]

play this when I want to hear typical low key Bartok. Puts me in his sphere

[@carmenaballi]

Fantástico Bartók

[@giuseppelivolsi3059]

[@soongsoong123]

9:26

[@philipboucherat113]

I love this recording. I think Richter is much better at playing these pieces than Bartok himself, Bartok seems to play everything at breakneck speed apart from anything else, so Bartok is a genius composer, not such a great piano player, whereas Richter is a genius piano player.

[@philipboucherat113]

Although I just listened to this which is allegedly Bartok himself, I don't know

[@kimsechrist4139]

Bartok is the one who is writing the songs. It has nothing to do with how well he plays piano, it's how he hears his songs. If he wants them to be fast, so be it. Maybe that's the culture he's writing for. These in particular were dance songs, so they would be fast. Bartok died in 1945, and this is 1970, so it's not Bartok. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4WUmH-kqpmir7M this one is, though,

[@galanis38]

@@kimsechrist4139 So are you suggesting that the composer's own performance of his music is the only "authentic" or somehow "legitimate" one?

[@OzanFabienGuvener]

Bartok doesn't play everything European; It was greatly influenced by folkloric performance in terms of rhythm and phrasing. This is both difficult for modern ears and contrary to the expectations of "classical music". I love Richter's playing, but in Bartok's playing all the pieces fall into place.

[@karstenwintherjensen2677]

Seems Richter was about to fall a sleep on this recording. Don't dare to think of the pour audience

[@hansplougolsen9568]

Er du vaagen ? Eller doev, taenk at sige saadan om Verdens bedste !! Capt Olsen.

[@abriellerobare5465]

*asleep, *poor

[@adriancameron8665]

In order to fully express the harmonies in a piece it is sometimes necessary to slow the tempo. In doing this, Richter was able to reveal inner voices and harmonies in many of the pieces he played.